Beyond the valley of the dolls
(Blu-ray) 

Title from title screen.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1970.

Widescreen (2.35:1).

"The film ... is not a sequel to 'Valley of the dolls' ... It does ... deal with the oft-times nightmare world of show business in a different time and place."

Special features: High-definiton digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray; Audio commentary from 2003 featuring screenwriter Roger Ebert; Audio commentary from 2006 featuring actors Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Harrison Page, John la Zar, and Erica Gavin; New interview with filmmaker John Waters; Episode from 1988 of The incredibly trange film show on director Russ Meyer; Q&A about the film from 1992 featuring Meyer, Ebert, La Zar, Read, and actors David Gurian, Charles Napier, Michael Blodgett, and Edy Williams; Interview with cast members from 2005; Above, beneath, and beyond the valley; Look on up at the botton; The best of beyond; Sex, drugs, music and murder; and Casey & Roxanne, five documentaries from 2006 about the making of the film, featuring the cast and crew; Screen tests; Trailers ; Plus, in booklet: an essay by film critic Glenn Kenny.

Music, Stu Phillips ; director of photography, Fred J. Koenekamp ; art directors, Jack Martin Smith, Arthur Lonergan ; editors, Dann Cahn, Dick Wormell.

Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Marcia McBroom, John La Zar, Michael Blodgett, David Gurian, Edy Williams, Erica Gavin, Phyllis Davis, Henry Rowland, Harrison Page, Duncan Mc Leod, Jim Iglehart, Charles Napier, and the Strawberry Alarm Clock.

It follows three young female rockers going Hollywood in hell-bent sixties style under the spell of a flamboyant producer, whose decadent bashes showcase Meyer's trademark libidinal exuberance. Transgressive and outrageous, this big-studio version of a debaucherous midnight movie is an addictively entertaining romp from one of the movies' great outsider artists.

MPAA Rating: NC-17, no one 17 and under.

Blu-ray, region A; 16:9 presentation; monaural; requires Blu-ray player.

In English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).